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 vii AELBERT CUYP 103 on the bank of the Maas. They face left towards the herdsman, who sits in the centre playing the bagpipes. A boy in a red jacket, with a stick in his hand, stands listening. A little way off, to the right, two persons, riding on asses with panniers, are coming over a field. In the middle distance is a river, on the farther bank of which is a building. A hot summer afternoon. A " charming production " (Sm.). Panel, 19 inches by 28 inches or 27 inches according to Sm. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiostte, ii. 186. Exhibited at the British Institution, 1822 and 1832. Sale. Claude Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (5500 francs). In the collection of Charles Hanbury Tracey, London, 1834 (Sm.). 336. A Herdsman playing the Flute, with Cattle. A hilly landscape by a river. In the foreground a herdsman sits playing the flute; near him cattle are lying down or standing. Warm in tone. Signed, A. C. ; panel, 20 inches by 26^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, March 17, 1857, No. 25. 336*. Cows on a River-Bank, with a Herdsman playing the Flute. Sale. Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, July 26, 1859, No. 439 (105, Plumley). 337. SHEEP, WITH A HERDSMAN DRAWING WATER AND A HORSEMAN (or, The Thirsty Herdsman). Sm. 113. in a hilly landscape near Nymwegen a herdsman with three sheep and a goat is in the right foreground, near a hill surmounted by trees. A man in a cloak, mounted on a bay horse, is in the centre. On the left a herdsman in blue is drawing water from a stream ; beyond him a peasant drives three cows into the water. The distance, broken by hedges, is intersected by a river with a castle on its bank and a tower. [Pendant to 402.] Canvas, 45 inches by 69! inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 40). Exhibited at the British Institution, 1819. Sales. Sir Philip Stephens, London, May 17, 1810 (1680, bought in according to Sm.). Lord Ranelagh, London, 1822 (^1260, bought in). Lord Ranelagh, London, May 15, 1829 (1060 : los., Peacock). In the collection of the Earl of Egremont, 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Leconfield, Petworth. 338. Cattle and Herdsmen, one of them drawing Water (or, The Thirsty Herdsman). Sm. 142. A hilly landscape with clumps of trees and a broad river, under a brilliant sunset. In the foreground are a peasant woman in a red jacket and a man who stoops to fill a cup at a stream flowing along the front. Beyond them, to the right, a man with a pack-ass comes along a road bordered with trees. Near a little hill in the centre two men are resting ; one of them has a basket beside him. On the hill a herdsman tends cows and sheep. The